This is the Honolulu Star Advertiser’s 9.27.2014 article from their Local Section on “Funding issues delay Kihei high school”. http://bit.ly/1vAF6FZ KHAT Spokesperson Andrew Beerer’s comments on the article: ***** It is the first public statement I have seen from Kalbert Young, regarding this subject. His statement is curious, “the funding pieces don’t work...

The Kihei community has been told that there was $130 million in the 2015 fiscal year budget to build Kihei high school. The Department of Education (DOE) could hit the ground running when the money became available on July 1, 2014. The DOE would be able to move forward as it planned for the past 6 years, contracting the project as a design-build with a single contractor. The design-build would...

KHAT met yesterday with our South Maui Rep. Kaniela Ing. KHAT is looking carefully at the high school’s financing trend. We understand to date: * HD-1 appropriated $65 million this past legislative session; * The $65 million appropriation was subsequently reduced to a $30 million appropriation; * A portion of the $130 million needed for KHS comes from the SEFI special projects fund via...